Ask MetaFilter posts tagged with chords

Be my Guitar Hero!

surenoproblem — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:05:14 -0800

Easy guitar question! Can anyone help me figure out what chords are being played in the chorus to this youtube video? http://youtube.com/watch?v=-uZ19EYzX4c

I'm just looking for the chords to the chorus (starts around 28s). For what it's worth, the camera zooms in a bit closer on his fingers just before the chorus, and really close before the next repeat (1:28), but I still can't work it out!

My best guess is:

Am C(?) F E

But I'm pretty sure I'm missing something... please help!

Yeah Budgie!

mistsandrain — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:42:49 -0800

Please help me find chords and tab for Budgie's "Young is a World"... off of the Squawk album. I didn't realize OLGA was taken down... must be old news. My searches have turned up nothing... I think I have the lyrics down but if you run across those, please include...

thanks!

Learning guitar - need to find songs with just the chords I know.

xchmp — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:38:07 -0800

I've been learning guitar for just over a month now and it seems to be going quite well. I'm trying to get my chord transitions fast and smooth with the easy open chords before I move on to more difficult ones. I've found a few songs that I can play with just these chords by looking through the usual guitar tab/chord websites, but finding them this way manually is time-consuming. Where I can search for songs that only include a specified set of chords?

Name that chord!

sergeant sandwich — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:16:51 -0800

What is the guitar chord being played by Nancy Wilson at 0:44-0:47 in this Heart video? I cant for the life of me figure out what the hell that is or which fingers are on what frets; doesn't look like any of the moveable barre shapes or open chords I know. But I'm absolutely sure I've seen that (or similar) before on other videos, and I'm thinking it must be something fairly common. Anyone care to clue me in?

chords in "the kiss" by Judee Sill

primer_dimer — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:26:59 -0800

Anyone care to take a guess at the chords in "the kiss" by Judee Sill (youtube link inside)? Never having heard of Judee Sill before, I came across this performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test (UK TV show from the 70s). I would dearly love to work out a guitar arrangement but can't find any tab or sheet music anywhere. I'm not bad at transcibing guitar tracks from ear but I'm less certain about the piano. Can any ivory-tinkling MeFite help me figure out the chords? You can see her hands at some points in the performance which might help.

engine heart chords

KaeporaGaebora — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:21:07 -0800

does anyone happen to know the chords to engine heart by mirah? i think they are played on a ukelele. thank you!

EADGBE chord?

crayolarabbit — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:18:56 -0800

On a guitar, in regular tuning, what is the chord you get when you play it open? (basically, what chord is made by playing EADGBE)?

why is E not E?

sergeant sandwich — Sat, 26 May 2007 04:18:14 -0800

i'm a total guitar noob and have been learning for only a month now, so please forgive what may be a really dumb question. why is it that to play certain chords on the guitar (for instance, C major, or A minor) you don't play the open low-E string, but you do play the open high-E string. it's the same note, isn't it? so why doesn't it sound as good?

Chords for "Ring Telephone Ring" by Buck Ram?

unmusic — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:22:53 -0800

[obscuremusicfilter] Wondering if anyone has reliable chords and/or sheet music to "Ring Telephone Ring" by Buck Ram. The song was popular in late 1941, both the Ink Spots and Glen Miller Orchestra recorded versions.

Thanks! I'm posting for a friend, BTW...

Tilly and the wall piano chords

KaeporaGaebora — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:26:54 -0800

does anyone know the piano chords to coughing colors by tilly and the wall? thanks!

Chords / Melody ?

signal — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:10:35 -0800

What's the relationship between the melody of a song and its chord structure? I've been playing guitar for some 20 years and when I'm playing a song I understand on some pre-rational level why the chords change at that precise instant, and how the song fits into it, but I've never figured it out on an abstract level that I could explain to somebody else or use to write my own songs.
I can play some blues, and know that at certain chords in a progression, certain intervals sound better than others, but I've never figured out how to go the other way: given a melody, figure out the chords that will fit it.
When I have tried to write songs, the chords tend to match the melody almost exactly (if I sing a C, I play a C chord), which of course sounds like crap.
I'm interested in the theory of this, no matter how dry, and I'm thinking of a pop/rock context.

Help me play songs for children

djstig — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:04:19 -0800

Help me to find guitar tabs/chords for childrens songs. I've just got a job as a teacher, and kind of mentioned that I can play the guitar, I can....just. So I want to expand my repertoire from no songs, to many song, that will keep 6 year olds happy for hours(minutes will do to start with)

I'm not an expert on finding tabs/chords on the internet, and there seems to be loads of sites out there, but not many that I've found with children specific songs.

Also any song books that people would recommend me to use for this age range would be handy as well.

Thanks in advance.

Birthday present chord help

interrobang — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:40:34 -0800

I'd like to record a version of this song on Garageband for my girlfriend's birthday, but I cannot figure out the chords, and I can't find them anywhere online. Can anyone please help? I've already figured out the trumpet part (and I figure I could do the violin bit on the mandolin, but the chords sound somewhat... jazzy to me, and I don't know what most of them are. If anyone could either post the chords for me, or find them somewhere online, it'd be a great help.

Why do bar chords hurt my hand?

ORthey — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:44:46 -0800

Bar chords - still painful after 10 years. Anyone have tips? I've been playing (acoustic) guitar since I was 15 or so, and my left hand (sort of below the thumb area) still hurts after only a half hour or so of playing bar chords. I've made do by using the thumb on my left hand for bass notes, which actually works really well, but still - I'd ideally like to do both. Am I simply pressing too hard? What's the deal?

Why do I favour some names of notes in the chromatic scale over their other names?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:53:18 -0800

MusicianFilter: Why do I favour some names of notes in the chromatic scale over their other names? To me, when mentioning the 'black' notes in the chromatic scale in speech, they're always:

C# - Eb - F# - G# - Bb

and never:

Db - D# - Gb - Ab - A#

My question is two-fold:

1) Why do you think this is?
2) Do you have/do this as well?

Please also state which is your primary instrument. Mine is guitar, and I'm wondering if that could have an influence, even if I can't directly tell how. I also play a little piano.

Question number 12050

baphomet — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:23:48 -0800

Guitarists: What are some of your favorite scales and chords? How about guitar-related web resources? Finally, are there any other lefty guitarists in Metaland, or am I the only one?

Question number 10802

sgt.serenity — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:14:27 -0800

Any non - confusing sites that illustrate how to play basic guitar chords ?

Question number 6175

Seth — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:08:04 -0800

Question from a very beginner guitar player about chords and strumming.